Director's Publications

Books

From and Ontological Point of View, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003.

Philosophy of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction 2nd edition, London: Routledge, 2004.

Philosophy of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction. London: Routledge, 1998. Published in Portuguese as Filosofia da Mente: Uma Introdução Contemporãnea (Instituto Piaget, 2002). Korean edition expected in 2003. A Chinese edition exists, but I have not seen a copy.

First-Order Logic: A Concise Introduction. Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 1994 (now published by Wadsworth).

The Nature of True Minds, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Perception and Cognition. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1983. Excerpt reprinted in R. Schwartz, ed. Perception (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004): 88-99.

Logic and Language, Washington: University Press of America, 1978.

Edited Volumes

Philosophy of Mind: A Guide and Anthology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Mental Causation, (edited with A. R. Mele), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.

Rationality, Morality, and Self-Interest, Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1993. (Epistemology and Cognition Series)

Cause, Mind, and Reality: Essays Honoring C. B. Martin, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989. (Philosophical Studies Series No. 47).

Articles

'Senses', in F. E. Macpherson, ed. The Senses: Classical and Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives. (Oxford: Oxford University Press): forthcoming.

'Relations', in R. Le Poidevin and R. Cameron eds, Routledge Companion to Metaphysics. (London: Routledge): forthcoming.

'Answers to Five Questions on Mind and Consciousness'. in P. Grim, ed. Mind and Consciousness: Five Questions (Automatic Press/VIP): forthcoming.

'Language and Thought', in B. P. McLaughlin, ed. Oxford Handbook in the Philosophy of Mind. (Oxford: Oxford University Press): forthcoming.

'Anomalous Monism', in H. Dyke, ed. From Truth to Reality: New Essays in Metaphysics. (London: Routledge, 2008): 85-98.

'Modes and Mind', in S. Gozzano and F. Orilia, ed. Tropes, Universals, and the Philosophy of Mind. (Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2008): 13-30.

'On Being Ontologically Serious', in M. Esfeld, ed. John Heil: Symposium on His Ontological Point of View. (Frankfurt: Ontos-Verlag, 2006): 15-27. The volume includes 12 critical pieces on From an Ontological Point of View, together with replies to each.

'The Legacy of Linguisticism', Australasian Journal of Philosophy 84 (2006): 233-44.

'Real Tables', The Monist 88 (2005): 493-509.

'Kinds and Essences', Ratio 18 (2005): 405-19.

'Dispositions', Synthese 144 (2005): 343-56.

'Natural Intentionality', in Richard Schantz, ed. The Externalist Challenge. New Studies in Cognition and Intentionality (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2004): 287-96.

'Metafysik efter 1960', in Engelsk og Amerikansk Philosophy Videnskab og Sprog, Poul Lübke, ed., (Politikens Forlag, 2004): 303-48.

'Properties and Powers' in Dean Zimmerman, ed., Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, vol 1 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004): 223-54.

'Mental Properties' (with David Robb), American Philosophical Quarterly 40 (2003): 175-96.

'Levels of Reality', Ratio 16 (2003): 205-21.

'Multiply Realized Properties', in Sven Walter and Heinz-Dieter Heckmann, eds., Physicalism and Mental Causation: The Metaphysics of Mind and Action (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2003): 11-30.

'Truth Making and Entailment', Logique et Analyse 169-70 (2000): 231-42. (A special issue on Truth Making edited by Peter Forrest and Drew Khlentzos). Appeared in 2003.

'Mental Causation', in S. P. Stich and T. A. Warfield, eds., Contemporary Philosophy of Mind, (Blackwell, 2002): 214-34.

'Epistemology and the Philosophy of Mind', in Paul Moser, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002): 316-35.

'A History of Early Analytic Philosophy of Mind', in Analytic Philosophy: Classic Readings, Stephen Hales, ed., (Wadsworth, 2002): 221-30.

'Hilary Putnam', in A Companion to Analytic Philosophy, A. P. Martinich and David Sosa, eds., (Blackwell, 2001): 393-412.

'Funkcjonalizm, realizm i poziomy bytu', ('Functionalism, Realism, and Levels of Being') in Pragmatyzm i filozofia Hilarego Putnama, Urszula M. Zeglen, ed., (Torun: University of Torun, 2000): 135-52. A version in English appears in James Conant and Urszula Zeglen. eds., Hilary Putnam: Pragmatism and Realism (London: Routledge, 2002):128-42.

'What Philosophers can Learn from Psychologists (and Vice Versa)'. in The Future of Psychology, Thierry Brander et al., eds. (Amsterdam: Stichting VSPA Ledenservice, 1999): 21-27.

'Multiple Realizability', American Philosophical Quarterly 36 (1999): 189-208.

(with C. B. Martin) 'The Ontological Turn', Midwest Studies in Philosophy 23 (1999): 34-60.

'Philosophy of Mind', in Ouyang Kang, ed., Contemporary British and American Philosophers, forthcoming in Chinese (Beijing: People's Press) and in English (New York: Nova Scientific Publishers).

(with C. B. Martin) 'Rules and Powers', Philosophical Perspectives 12 (1998): 283-312.

'Supervenience Deconstructed', European Journal of Philosophy 6 (1998): 146-55.

'Skepticism and Realism', American Philosophical Quarterly 35 (1998): 57-72.

'Propositional Attitudes', ProtoSozologie 8/9: 1996. Reprinted in G. Preyer and G. Peter (Eds.), The Contextualization of Rationality: Problems, Concepts, and Theories of Rationality (Paderborn: Mentis Verlag, 2000), 19-32.

'Reduction, Illumination, and Elimination', New Ideas in Psychology 13: 1995.

'Supervenience Redux', in Supervenience: New Essays, U. Yalçin and E. Savellos, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).

'Going to Pieces', in Philosophical Psychopathology: A Book of Readings, G. Graham and L. Stephens, eds. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994).

'Minds and Bodies', Znak, perpetually forthcoming. A revised version appears in The Mind-Body Problem: The Present State of the Debate, T. Szubka and R. Warner, eds. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1994).

'Believing Reasonably', Noûs 26: January, 1992.

'Mentality and Causality', Topoi 11: March, 1992.

'Philosophy of Mind', in Reflections on Philosophy: Introductory Essays, L. McHenry and F. Adams, eds. (New York: St. Martin's, 1992).

(with Alfred Mele) 'Mental Causes', American Philosophical Quarterly 28: January, 1991.

'Being Indiscrete', in The Future of Folk Psychology: Intentionality and Cognitive Science, John Greenwood, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).

'Perceptual Experience', in Dretske and his Critics, Brian McLaughlin, ed. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991).

'Agency, Causality, and Content', in Wittgenstein: Towards a Re-Evaluation, R. Haller and J. Brandl, eds. (Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1990).

'Minds Divided', Mind 98: October, 1989.

'Recent Work: Realism and Anti-Realism', Philosophical Books 30: April, 1989.

'Intentionality Speaks for Itself', in Re-Representation: Readings in the Philosophy of Mental Representation, Stuart Silvers, ed. (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988).

'Talk and Thought', Philosophical Papers 17: November, 1988.

'The Epistemic Route to Anti-Realism', Australasian Journal of Philosophy 66: June, 1988.

'Privileged Access', Mind 97: April, 1988. Reprinted in Peter Ludlow and Norah Martin, eds., Readings on Externalism and Authoritative Self-Knowledge (Cambridge University Press, 1998): 129-45; also reprinted in William G. Lycan, ed., Mind and Cognition: An Anthology, 2d ed. (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, forthcoming).

'The Molyneux Question', Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 17: September, 1987.

'Are We Brains in a Vat? Top Philosopher Says, 'No'', Canadian Journal of Philosophy 17: June, 1987.

'Doubts About Skepticism', Philosophical Studies 51: January, 1987. Reprinted in M. D. Roth and G. Ross, eds. Doubting: Contemporary Perspectives on Skepticism, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989; also reprinted as 'Zweifel am Skeptizismus', in T. Grundmann and K. Stueber, eds., Philosophie der Skepsis (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh) 180-200.

'Formalism and Psychological Explanation', Journal of Mind and Behavior 7: Winter, 1986.

'Does Psychology Presuppose Rationality?' Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 16: March, 1986.

'Rationality and Psychological Explanation', Inquiry 28: December, 1985.

'Thoughts on the Virtues', Journal of Value Inquiry 19: January, 1985.

'Reliability and Epistemic Merit', Australasian Journal of Philosophy 62: December, 1984.

'Doxastic Incontinence', Mind 93: January, 1984.

'Believing What One Ought', Journal of Philosophy 80: November, 1983. Reprinted in E. Sosa, ed. The International Research Library of Philosophy, vol. 2, Knowledge and Justification, Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing Co., forthcoming.

'Doxastic Agency', Philosophical Studies 43: May, 1983.

'What Does the Mind's Eye Look At?' Journal of Mind and Behavior 3: Spring, 1982.

'Foundationalism and Epistemic Rationality', Philosophical Studies 42: September, 1982.

'Seeing is Believing', American Philosophical Quarterly 19: July, 1982.

'Speechless Brutes', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 42: March, 1982.

'Gibsonian Sins of Omission', Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 11: October, 1981.

'Does Cognitive Psychology Rest on a Mistake?' Mind 90: July, 1981.

'On Saying What There Is', Philosophy 56: April, 1981.

'Cognition and Representation', Australasian Journal of Philosophy 58: June, 1980.

'What Gibson's Missing', Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 9: October, 1979.

'Making Things Simple', Critica 11: April, 1979.

'Action and Desire', Philosophical Investigations 2: July, 1979.

'Tractatus 2.0211-2.0212', in Wittgenstein and His Impact on Contemporary Thought, W. Leinfellner, H. Berghel and R. Hubner, eds. (Vienna: Holder, Pichler, Tempsky, 1978).

'Traces of Things Past', Philosophy of Science 45: March, 1978.

'Tractatus 4.0141', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 38: June,1978.

'Teaching, Training and the Liberal Arts', Liberal Education 60: October, 1974

'On the Abilities of Some Machines', Proceedings of the XV World Congress of Philosophy vol. 6 (Varna, 1973).

'Augustine's Attack on Skepticism: The Contra Academicos', Harvard Theological Review 65: January, 1972.

'Sensations, Experiences and Brain-Processes', Philosophy 45: July, 1970.

Behavioral and Brain Science Commentaries

'What are we Talking about Here?' comment on Roger Shepard, 'Perceptual-Cognitive Universals as Reflections of the World', Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (2001): 671-72.

'Truth or Consequences', comment on J. Baron, 'Nonconsequentialist decisions', Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17 (1994): 19-20.

'Unraveling Introspection', comment on Alvin Goldman, 'The Psychology of Folk Psychology', Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (1993): 49-50.

'Intentionality and the Explanation of Behavior', comment on K. M. Sayre, 'Intentionality and Information Processing', Behavioral and Brain Sciences 9: (1986): 146-47.

'I've Got You Under My Skin', comment on B. F. Skinner, 'Behaviorism at Fifty', Behavioral and Brain Sciences 7 (1984): 629-30.

'Belief-Ascription, Parsimony and Rationality', comment on D. C. Dennett, 'Intentional Systems in Cognitive Ethology: The 'Panglossian Paradigm' Defended', Behavioral and Brain Sciences 6 (1983): 365-66.

'Computation, Cognition and Representation', comment on Z. Pylyshyn, Computation and Cognition: Issues in the Foundations of Cognitive Science', Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (1980): 139.

'Mental Imagery and Mystification', comment on S. Kosslyn et al, 'On the Demystification of Mental Imagery', Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (1979): 554-55.

Critical Studies

Peter Unger's All the Power in the World, in Noûs 42 (2008): 336-48.

George Molnar's Powers: A Study in Metaphysics, in Journal of Philosophy 101 (2004): 438-43.

'As Time Goes By', discussion of Michael Leyton's Symmetry, Causality, Mind, in American Journal of Psychology 108: Fall, 1995.

'Getting to the Bottom of it All', discussion of Peter White's Psychological Metaphysics, in American Journal of Psychology 107: Winter, 1994.

'Les Liaisons Dangereuses', discussion of Alvin Goldman's Liaisons: Philosophy Meets the Cognitive and Social Sciences, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54: 1994.

'At the Cutting Edge: Philosophical Perspectives on Mental Causation', discussion of J. Tomberlin, ed., Philosophical Perspectives 3: 1989 (Philosophy of Mind and Action Theory), Philosophical Papers 20: September, 1991.

'Intentionality Naturalized', discussion of R. Millikan, Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories, in Behaviorism 14: Spring, 1986.

Barry Stroud's The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 47: December, 1986.

Reviews

Jaegwon Kim, Physicalism, or Something Near Enough in Philosophical Review 117: 119-22.

Lawrence A Shapiro, The Mind Incarnate in Times Literary Supplement (12 November 2004): 32.

E. J. Lowe, The Possibility of Metaphysics, in Philosophical Review 110 (2001): 91-94.

Jaegwon Kim, Mind in a Physical World, in British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 50 (2000): 769-73.

D. M. Armstrong, vA World of States of Affairs, in Philosophical Review 108 (1999): 115-118.

D. C. Dennett, Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness, in Philosophical Books 38 (1997): 265-68.

E. J. Lowe, Subjects of Experience, in Times Literary Supplement: 1o January 1997: 27.

G. Strawson, Mental Reality, in The Philosophical Quarterly 46 (1996): 414-16.

J. Haldane and C. Wright, eds., Reality, Representation, and Projection, in Philosophical Books 36: April, 1995.

R. Kirk, Raw Feeling: A Philosophical Account of the Essence of Consciousness, in Times Literary Supplement: 28 April 1995.

J. Searle, The Rediscovery of the Mind, in Philosophical Psychology 7: 1994.

R. Nolan, Cognitive Practices: Human Language and Human Knowledge, in Philosophical Books 35: October, 1994.

R. Nozick, The Nature of Rationality, in Mind 103: October, 1994.

W. Seager, Metaphysics of Consciousness, in Philosophical Review 102: October, 1993.

D. W. Hamlyn, In and Out of the Black Box, in The Philosophical Quarterly 41: April, 1991.

M. Posner, ed., Foundations of Cognitive Science, in Teaching Philosophy 14: December, 1991.

F. Dretske, Explaining Behavior: Reasons in a World of Causes, in Philosophical Psychology 3: 1990.

J. Heal, Fact and Meaning, in Philosophical Books 31: October, 1990.

L. Code, Epistemic Responsibility, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 49: June, 1989.

J. Z. Young, Philosophy and the Brain, in American Scientist 76: Nov.-Dec., 1988.

D. Papineau, Reality and Representation, in Philosophical Books 29: July, 1988.

N. Jardine, The Fortunes of Inquiry, in Mind 97: April, 1988.

L. Haworth, Autonomy, in Canadian Philosophical Reviews 7: July, 1987.

S. Nathanson, vThe Ideal of Rationality, in Philosophical Books 28: January, 1987.

S. Stich, From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science, in Philosophical Books 26: July, 1985.

N. Nathan, Evidence and Assurance, in Philosophical Books 25: January, 1984.

E. Valentine, Conceptual Issues in Psychology, in Philosophical Books 24: July, 1983.

J. Fodor, Representations, in Philosophical Books 23: October, 1982.

J. Richardson, Mental Imagery and Human Memory, in Philosophical Books 23: October, 1982.

G. Vesey, Personal Identity, in Philosophia 11: July, 1982.

H. Burson, Dismantling the Memory Machine, in Philosophical Books 22: January, 1981.

W. Runciman, A Critique of Max Weber's Philosophy of Social Science, in Philosophy of Science 40: June, 1973.

Dictionary and Encyclopedia Contributions

Blackwell Companion to Metaphysics, 2d ed Gary Rosenkrantz (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming). Entries: Experience (updated), C. B. Martin, Mind-Body Problem.

Encyclopaedia Britannica (forthcoming). Entry: Materialism.

The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, Rob Wilson and Frank Keil, eds. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999). Entry: Mental Causation.

Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth Century Philosophers, Stuart Brown, Diané Collinson, and Robert Wilkinson, eds. (London: Routledge, 1996). Entry: Ernest Sosa.

Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Supplement, D. M. Borchert, ed. (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1996). Entry: Philosophy of Mind.

The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Ted Honderich, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995). Entries: A. I. Goldman; G. Harman; Holism; K. Kraus; K. Lehrer; C. B. Martin; Mnemic Causation; Monty Hall Problem; Psychology, Philosophical Relevance of; Psychology and Philosophy; J. J. C. Smart; E. Sosa.

The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, 2d ed., Ted Honderich, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Entries: Psychology and Philosophy (updated); Psychology, Philosophical Relevance of (updated); Levels of Reality.

The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Robert Audi, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). Entries: Analytic Philosophy; Blind Sight; Direct Realism; Doxastic; Molyneux's Question; Ordinary Language Philosophy; Pro Attitude; Preanalytic; Prototype Theory; Pseudo Hallucination; Reasons for Belief; Subdoxastic; Twin Earth.

The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 2d ed., Robert Audi, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). Entries: Awareness; Dennett; Kim; Power.

The Blackwell Companion to Epistemology, Jonathan Dancy and Ernest Sosa, eds. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1992). Entries: Dispositions; Belief; Belief-in and Belief-that; and Judgement.

The Blackwell Companion to Metaphysics, Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa, eds. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1995). Entries: Experience; Sensa.

Electronic Publications

'Precis of From an Ontological Point of View' together with responses to five discussants. SWIF (Sito Web Italiano per la Filosofia), Philosophy of Mind Review.

'Mental Causation' (with David Robb), in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2003, revised 2005, 2008.

'Metaphysics of Mind', in A Field Guide to the Philosophy of Mind.

Other Publications

'A Modest Proposal', an op-ed piece urging the nationalization of professional baseball that appeared in a number of newspapers including the San Francisco Chronicle (March 30, 1994), the Durham Harald-Sun (March 29, 1994), the Raleigh News and Observer (April 6, 1994), the Greensboro News and Record (April 3, 1994).